China in major battle against locusts; hopes to prevent migration to Beijing(curse continues)

SI ^ | 07/01/08

[TigerLikesRooster]

Then, there is also Algae problem:

Algae Overload Threatens Olympic Sailing Course

by Louisa Lim

Diggers load up trucks to carry away the algae in the city of Qingdao, China. According to local government officials, 170,000 tons of algae have already been cleared away.

“It's an interesting and challenging place to sail.” Michael Jones, Austrialian sailing program director

Thousands of volunteers are helping to manually scoop the green algae out of the sea. Experts say the Enteromorpha prolifera algae was flushed into Qingdao city waters by southerly winds and ocean currents.

"It's like a bad episode of Poltergeist," says U.S. Olympic windsurfer Benjamin Barger. "The green stuff will get on the board and you'll slip off. It's pretty nasty."

Morning Edition, July 3, 2008 · When China's leaders boasted they would host a green Olympics, they surely did not envision an entire coastline blanketed in great swaths of bright green algae. It is almost luminous green and smells absolutely foul.

Armies of volunteers are using rakes and even their bare hands to scoop algae off the surface of the Yellow Sea in an attempt to clean it up in time for the Summer Olympics in August.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92141130&ft=1&f=1001

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[Flavius]

What food product we import will these algae be part of?

[airborne]

Is eating them an option?

(the N. Koreans would be grateful for the food)

[traumer]

BAD KARMA

- to be continued -

[TigerLikesRooster]

I found that it is used for
thickening agent for ice cream, and for shampoo and drugs.

[Flavius]

I suppose I should be ecstatic at least its natural made vs toxic chemicals they send regularly

[TigerLikesRooster]

Seashore is not free from pollution, either. However, toxic chemicals may be more diluted in algae.

[traumer]

SUSHI !

[Man50D]

Jonathan Hunt from Fox News did a series of reports approximately three months ago about the Gobi Desert rapidly expanding to the point where sand storms frequently deposit large amounts of sand in Tianneman square.

[xrmusn]

Hmmm..
The China I remember wouldn’t have had a Front End Loader and all those Dump Trucks.....

If the people from the provinces make a move on Beijing prior to the Olympics, the Govt will make Tieneman (sp) Sq look like a day at the beach...

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[Mark]

I think God has spoken.

[B4Ranch]

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[Ratblaster]

New “Dragon Puffies” make happy taste smile.

[ovrtaxt]

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Algae is actually good for oil production. We should make them a deal.

[Ronin]

Stay tuned for the plague of frogs....

[Spktyr]

Hmmm.

Let’s see. China seems to be having parallels to the Plagues Of Egypt from the Bible.

1. Rivers and other water sources turned to blood killing all fish and other water life - Red Tide
2. Amphibians - those Chinese snakehead amphib fish
3. Lice or gnats - same
4. Beasts - same
5. Disease on livestock - same
6. Unhealable boils - seen their chemical victims?
7. Hail mixed with fire - recent geological activity?
8. Locusts - locusts
9. Darkness - smog blotting out sun in most Chinese cities
10. Death of the first-born of all Egyptian families - they’re working on this one.

[21twelve]

Thanks. I read about this in the Seattle Times - but the photos are great. In the Times article a racer said he watched four sail boats have to get pulled free from the algae by a tugboat!

Several weeks ago there was an article talking about how in Bejing they were alternating vehicle use, no trucks, shutting down factories and construction to try to clean up the air. (A liberal’s wet dream!)

[JimSEA]

BAD KARMA

No kidding. Riots, Bird flu, earthquakes, algae, a plague of locusts, and what next? The Ancestors are signaling time for a new emperor.